The Legend of the Baal-Shem Paperback
by Martin Buber
Part of the Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology series
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The Jewish philosopher Martin Buber spoke directly to the most profound human concerns in all his works, including his discussions of Hasidism, a mystical-religious movement founded in Eastern Europe by Israel ben Eliezer, called the Baal-Shem (the Master of God's Name).
Living in the first part of the eighteenth century in Podolia and Wolhynia, the Baal-Shem braved scorn and rejection from the rabbinical establishment and attracted followers from among the common people, the poor, and the mystically inclined.
Here Buber offers a sensitive and intuitive account of Hasidism, followed by twenty stories about the life of the Baal-Shem.
This book is the earliest and one of the most delightful of Buber's seven volumes on Hasidism and can be read not only as a collection of myth but as a key to understanding the central theme of Buber's thought: the I-Thou, or dialogical, relationship. "All positive religion rests on an enormous simplification of the manifold and wildly engulfing forces that invade us: it is the subduing of the fullness of existence.
All myth, in contrast, is the expression of the fullness of existence, its image, its sign; it drinks incessantly from the gushing fountains of life."--Martin Buber, from the introduction
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- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/1995
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Available to Order - This title is available to order, with delivery expected within 2 weeks
- Format:Paperback
- Pages:224 pages
- Publisher:Princeton University Press
- Publication Date:17/04/1995
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- ISBN:9780691043890